Advances towards using finger/toenail dosimetry to triage a large population after potential exposure to ionizing radiation

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 882-887

  He, Xiaoming ^a,b   Gui, Jiang ^a   Matthews, Thomas P ^a   Williams, Benjamin B ^a   Swarts, Steven G ^c   Grinberg, Oleg ^a   Sidabras, Jason ^d   Wilcox, Dean E ^b   Swartz, Harold M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

EPR dosimetry; Ex vivo nail dosimetry; In vivo nail dosimetry; Nail clippings

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; DOSE-DEPENDENT; DOSIMETRY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EPR DOSIMETRY; EX-VIVO; FIELD DEPLOYMENT; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LARGE POPULATION; POTENTIAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION-INDUCED; RETROSPECTIVE DOSIMETRY; STRATEGIC VALUES;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; INTERLOCKING SIGNALS; IONIZING RADIATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 80052929780     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2011.05.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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